The court of Star Chamber (Latin: Camera stellata) was an English court that sat at the royal Palace of Westminster, from the late 15th century to the...
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The Star Chamber is a 1983 American crime thriller film starring Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook,1 Yaphet Kotto, Sharon Gless, James B. Sikking, and Joe...
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star chamber in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Star Chamber was a notorious English court of law. Star Chamber may also refer to: Star Chamber (play)...
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Star Chamber was an online collectible card game (CCG) first released as just "Star Chamber" in 2003 by Nayantara Studios, later owned by Matrix Games...
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Star Chamber Academy was a Nation of Islam (NOI)-operated school in the Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. In 1998 the school had 60 pupils...
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Star Chamber is a one-act play by Noël Coward, one of ten that make up Tonight at 8.30, a cycle written to be performed in alternating groups of three...
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that his parents had been secretly married. The case ended up in the Star Chamber and aroused great public interest between 1604 and 1605. The court heard...
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against this Act. Parliament, by the Habeas Corpus Act 1640, abolished the Star Chamber in July 1641, which led to the de facto cessation of censorship. The...
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Ex officio oath (redirect from Star Chamber oath)
of a religious oath made by the accused prior to questioning by the Star Chamber, to answer truthfully all questions that might be asked.[citation needed]...
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The Clifton Star Chamber Case or Clifton vs. Robinson was a court case of early modern England, in 1601, before the Star Chamber, concerning the abduction...
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Star Chamber Cave is a limestone cave in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. In the 1780s the cave became the centre of tunnels known as the Lower...
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The fictional technology in Star Trek has borrowed many ideas from the scientific world. Episodes often contain technologies named after or inspired by...
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Shadow Cabinet (comics) (section Star Chamber)
the Heroes. Star Chamber is a rogue faction which disagrees with Dharma; all its operatives have defected from the main group. Star Chamber also included...
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unhappiness". Details of corrupt practices came out in the Suffolk's Star Chamber trial in February 1619. The main charges against the Earl were embezzling...
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except by royal prerogative or a body such as the Privy Council or Star Chamber. In a letter of 6 November James wrote: "The gentler tortours [tortures]...
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Privy Council (United Kingdom) (redirect from Privy Council Chamber)
example, a committee of the Council—which later became the Court of the Star Chamber—was during the 15th century permitted to inflict any punishment except...
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"Westminster", and "Rising Star" were used interchangeably. The species's name, naledi (Sesotho for "star"), and the "Dinaledi Chamber" (incorporating the Sotho...
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Habeas Corpus Act 1640 (redirect from Star Chamber Act)
Strafford in 1641 and before the English Civil War. It abolished the Star Chamber. It also declared that anyone imprisoned by order of the king, privy...
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Wolsey re-established the position of the prerogative courts of the Star Chamber and the Court of Chancery. The system in both courts concentrated on...
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(1980), The Sting II (1983), The Star Chamber (1983), The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984), Hollywood Wives (1985) (starring her famous daughter), The Morning...
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A diving chamber is a vessel for human occupation, which may have an entrance that can be sealed to hold an internal pressure significantly higher than...
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"Thou shalt commit adultery". The 1886 Reports of Cases in the Courts of Star Chamber and High Commission (which gives the Bodleian Library manuscript Rawlinson...
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which starred Sean Connery in a 'High Noon' scenario set on Io, one of Jupiter's moons. Hyams directed the thriller The Star Chamber (1983), starring Michael...
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1939 – March 15, 2021) was an American actor for film and television. He starred in the NBC television series Homicide: Life on the Street (1993–1999) as...
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Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber...
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(4.6 by 4.6 m) floodlight, created for the 1983 Peter Hyams film The Star Chamber, placed on the top of a 110-foot (34 m) crane. The location's blue-gray...
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trial in which the guilt or innocence of the defendant is predetermined Star Chamber – 15th to 17th century English court Purges in Turkey following the 2016...
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Murder by Phone (1982), The Star Chamber (1983), Project X (1987) and Striker's Mountain (1987), recurring or starring roles in Wiseguy, WIOU, Street...
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The Court of Castle Chamber (which was sometimes simply called Star Chamber) was an Irish court of special jurisdiction which operated in the sixteenth...
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The 36th Chamber of Shaolin is widely considered to be one of the greatest kung fu films and a turning point in its director's and star's careers. It...
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